PAPILIONID^.-PAPILTONIN^. 



PAPILIO. II. 



III.— PAPILIO MEHALA. Fig. 1 ^ ; Fig. 2 s . 



Papilio Ilehala, Henley Grose Smith, "Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.," ser. 5, 

 vol. 18, p. 150 (1880). 



Exp. 4 to 5 inches. 



" 3Ialc. Upperside dark brown, irrorated with fernigmous scales. An- 

 terior wings with a minute white spot at the end of the cell, also on the margin 

 at the ends of the discoidal and median nervules. Posterior wings irrorated in 

 the region of the anal angle ; beyond the middle is a band of seven spots, the 

 spot on the costal margin creamy-white, nearly square ; the second, third, 

 fourth, and fifth the same colour, elongated, the third being the longest; the 

 second, third, and fourth lunulatcd externally ; the fifth smaller, and the sixth 

 and seventh still smaller, and pale brown ; six small submarginal luuular spots 

 and a small si)ot on the outer margin, the four nearest the anal angle pale brown, 

 the others white ; the margin between the nervures white. 



" Underside. Anterior wings irrorated, as above, towards the apex, paler, 

 the spot at the end of the cell larger, and a double row of minute white spots on 

 the margin. Posterior wings, the spots are whiter, the band smaller, and the 

 submarginal row larger. 



" This butterfly belongs to the Castor group. 



" Habitat. Toungoo, Burmah. 



" In the Collection of Henley Grose Smith " (H. G. S., he. cit.). 



On the hind wings beneath there are five submarginal lunular or sagittate spots, followed by 

 two small sjjots, one at the anal angle, and one just above it ; just within the latter is a still 

 smaller white dot. The body is black, dotted with white ; the abdomen is marked with a double 

 row of white dots. 



Female. Upperside brown, darkest at the base ; anterior wings with the 

 cell longitudinally striated with dark brown and obscm-e reddish ; this is also 

 visible, though less distinctly, in the male. A submarginal row of nine spots 

 running from the costa to the inner margin. That nearest the costa is the 



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